In old portraits, each element of the outfit—from incredibly high heels to snake rings and toothpick amulets—represents a ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...

Generation Z, millennials and Generation X are more likely to get colorectal cancer – but funding cuts could see the search ...

Lifelike food replicas have long been a fixture of Japanese dining culture. Now, in an exhibition at Japan House, they are being spotlighted as art.

IT is said that Christmas has become too commercial—as if in Early Christian times it was just commercial enough—but the real ...

Seattle hides a wonderland for the nostalgic soul, a place where yesterday’s discards transform into tomorrow’s treasures ...

In a world of mass production and disposable goods, the Wisconsin Dells Antique Mall stands as a monument to objects built to last, to be loved, and to be passed down through generations – a place ...

"Each factory was a cacophony of noise, a cloud of noxious vapor, a sewer of pollution. Each factory devoured people whole, laborers and managers both." The ninth chapter of the book by David R.

Bob Ross didn’t always have his iconic hairdo, resurfaced photos of the famous painter reveal. The black-and-white images ...

The director of Justice League posted a pair of photos of Henry Cavill in what the director called "the original Superman ...

From the archives of London’s V&A Museum, a selection of items that were used by Victorian-era mourners to remember and pa ...

Artist Gilbert Stuart made numerous paintings of the first president. The copy that's up for sale was commissioned by James ...